EPISODE · Jan 10, 2026 · 50 MIN
Salman Rushdie is in "the 9th or 10th hour"
from The New Society | culture from the New Statesman
Born into a Muslim family in Bombay, India, in 1947, two months before the country’s partition, educated in the UK and now resident in New York, Salman Rushdie is a writer of multiple, interconnected worlds. At the heart of his work – ever since he won the 1982 Booker Prize with Midnight’s Children – has been some kind of history: the world’s, his own, or both at once. The latest chapter in the history of Rushdie’s life sees the now 78-year-old writer – and survivor of a near-fatal assassination attempt – turn his mind to ageing and dying. That is the unifying thread running through the narratives in his 26th book, the short story collection The Eleventh Hour. He sat down with the New Statesman's culture editor, Tanjil Rashid, late last year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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